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CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Could this man be the world's merchant of nuclear menace? How the father of Pakistan's nuclear program may have put his dangerous knowledge tose in the Arab world.
The unknown figure behind the Watergate scandal that ended a presidency. Now, the nation may be one step closer to finding out "Deep Throat's" identity. We'll explain why.
Plus, the power of intoxication: How your genes can affect how much you can drink. We'll tell you about a new study that may one day help those battling with addiction.
Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY. I Am Christine romans in for Fredricka Whitfield. All of that and more after this check of the headlines.
President Bush has called the world's leading sponsor of terrorism. Now Iran is lashing back. Iranian officials are giving their first reactions to the president's warning from his State of the Union Address. We'll have a live report from the White House in just a moment.
And another first, this one from Rome. Pope John Paul II made his first public appearance today since being hospitalized with breathing trouble. He had problems speaking. His voice has been weakened by a respiratory infection making it difficult to understand him.
And 2 1/2 hours from now and counting down for the start of the Super Bowl XXXIX. Security is tight at Alltel Stadium. And both teams are psyching themselves up for the big game. A live report from Jacksonville, Florida, coming up.
It's already part of President Bush's "axis of evil." Now Iran is under scrutiny for its human rights record, its alleged sponsorship of terror and most of all its nuclear program. Today, the country fired back at President Bush and the warning he issued in his State of the Union speech. CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux joins us now with the details -- Suzanne.
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Christine, this time the State of the Union President Bush did not call Iran the "axis of evil," but he did come pretty close. The president saying that today Iran remains the world's primary state sponsor of terror pursuing nuclear weapons while depriving its people the freedom they seek and deserve.
The president also of course giving his unequivocal support to Irani reformers, those who are seeking regime change. Well, today, on this day, Iranian leadership fired back saying that any aggressive military action by the U.S. would be answered in kind.
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HASSAN ROHANI, IRAN'S SUPREME NATION SECURITY COUNCIL (through translator): I don't think America itself will take such a risk, because America knows very well that we will strongly answer such an attack. The Americans are very well aware of our capabilities. They know our capabilities for retaliating against such attacks.
I do not think in their final calculations they will take such risks. Besides, in case of any such attacks, we will definitely have greater motivation to make our fuel cycle and will accelerate it.
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MALVEAUX: But top White House officials insist that the U.S. is not interested in a military strike, rather they are emphasizing diplomatic means, working with European allies to try to convince that Tehran regime to abondon its nuclear ambitions. Today we heard from Secretary of State Rice, we also heard as well from Vice President Dick Cheney. Both of them believe that Tehran's aggressive language today is a sign of desperation.
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DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We are moving to support efforts to resolve it diplomatically. If this process breaks down, the next step probably is go back to the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency. And ultimately refer to the United Nations Security Council for the imposition of international sanctions on Iran.
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MALVEAUX: Now Christine, of course in a clear sign the administration is really trying to downplay any kind of potential conflict with Iran, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hit at least 4 different talk shows today. Had very little to say on the subject rather, rather he defered it to the president and his secretary of state saying it was not a matter that he would discuss -- Christine.
ROMANS: And, Suzanne, Iran is essentially saying, how dare the United States criticize Iran, when the United States has Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Iran saying that military prisons with torture. Any response from the White House on those charges?
MALVEAUX: Well, certainly the White House feels that it's done discussions the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Secretary Rumsfeld, of course, having to answer many questions on that. Even saying that on previous occasions he had offered his letter of resignation to the president, which of course the president did not accept. But what the White House is saying is they feel the European allies, speaking with Iranian regime are trying to work this thing diplomatically. That they can use certain economic incentives as well. They say if all of this falls apart, they can simply refer to the International Atomic Energy Agency. And say, look, we need to refer to thto the U.N. Security Council and impose economic sanctions on Iran essentially isolating it from the rest of the world. They believe they can be effective in that way.
ROMANS: All right. Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. Thank you Suzanne.
I will have much more on the nuclear threat in the Middle East later in the show. "Time" magazine devotes its cover story of the merchant of menace, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb. Did he sell the technology to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states? We'll talk with a "Time" correspondent who contributed to that article.
A time of optimism: That's how Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is describing the mood right now in the Middle East. She's on a 2 day diplomatic mission in the region.
CNN's State Department correspondent Andrea Koppel is in Jerusalem.
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ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Secretary Rice arrived in Israel, and made the rounds, but unlike previous visits by her predecessor former secretary of state Colin Powell, Rice was greeted by something unusual a new sense of hope.
SILVAN SHALOM, ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER: We are ready for a new opportunity that we are determined to seize on Tuesday's summit in Sharm Sheik is a very important event, but the real test is for actions.
KOPPEL (voice-over): Secretary Rice called this a time of opportunity and hopes to seize momentum that the U.S. believes is now there following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the Democratic election of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: There a need to help the Palestinians with the development of the Democratic institutions that will form the foundation of a statehood. And to make certain that we are all doing what we can for peace.
KOPPEL (on camera): Secretary Rice is scheduled to meet the new Palestinian leadership in Ramallah. Her visit also comes on the eve of the highest level meeting between the Israelis and Palestinians in over 4 years.
A summit in Egypt where the 2 sides were expected to sign a cease-fire agreement. In the hopes of making goodwill gestures, Israel has aglide to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who haven't committed acts of violence against Israel, while on the Palestinian side in recent days, Palestinian security forces have closed down tunnels, which have been used to smuggle arms, according to Israel, from Egypt.
Andrea Koppel, CNN, Jerusalem.
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ROMANS: Another stumbling block on the road to democracy in Iraq. A week after Iraq's landmark election, a key Sunni Muslim group tells CNN it will not participate in drafting a new constitution while Iraq is under occupation. The Association of Muslim Scholars says the government won't be legitimate, because so many Sunnis boycotted the vote. Its asking the United States to refuse to endorse the results which are expected later this week.
Insurgents have taken 4 Egyptian workers hostage in Iraq. The were seized outside of their home in Western Baghdad this morning. They had been working for a telecommunications company in Iraq for about a year. So far there' no word on any demands from the hostage takers.
Farther South, a U.S. marine has been killed in the trouble Babil Province. The marine died while conducting security and stability operations yesterday.
Back home, all eyes are on Jacksonville, Florida om this Super Bowl Sunday. And we're not just talking about football fans, but the tens of thousands of security personnel and high-tech gadgets in place for the big game.
CNN National Correspondent Susan Candiotti shows us how one tool in particular is keeping the Super Bowl super safe.
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MIKE GRAY, DHS MARINE ENFORCEMENT: What we're looking for is movement, any suspicious movement.
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mike Gray works marine enforcement for the Department of Homeland Security. On night patrol, he's part of a team helping to protect Alltel stadium and the waterfront. Before, during and after the Super Bowl, there will be a constant stream of patrol boats along the St. Johns River, the one equipped with FLIR will have an added advantage.
FLIR stands for forward looking infrared. It's been around of years and at Super Bowl XXXIX, FLIR's a helpful tool for Mike Gray. FLIR's infrared camera mounted atop a boat can turn on command and seeking heat, reverses a target's image.
GRAY: I got a good view of rooftops, got a good view of the back alleys that are along some of these warehouse areas about a mile back of us. We look along there. We look along the bridges for anybody crawling around a bridge, where they shouldn't be crawling around.
CANDIOTTI: Pleasure boats are allowed to cruise the river, but not during the game.
GRAY: Camera's really having a hard time doing it, because of the night. It's a daytime camera. We switch over to FLIR, I can see I've got right now two POBs, two persons on board, one with a flashlight just closed the cooler and is putting the cooler down, lay the flashlight down and is now transiting right in front of us.
CANDIOTTI: Mike Kaliss is one of thousands partying on the water. He says he understands that times have changed.
MIKE KALISS, JACKSONVILLE RESIDENT: I'm pleased actually to see somebody out here to stop us. They gave us (INAUDIBLE) verified the registration for the boat and legitimate owner for the boat as well.
CANDIOTTI: One chapter of the playbook and one more high tech gizmo to help keep Super Bowl fans safe. Susan Candiotti, CNN, Jacksonville, Florida.
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ROMANS: For an exclusive, behind the scenes, all-access look at the security in place for the Super Bowl, watch CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING." CNN will have exclusive access to the command center in Jacksonville. It all begins Monday at 7:00 am Eastern, 4:00 Pacific.
Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
From what's going on off the field to what's going on on the field, our look at Super Bowl Sunday continues with the preview of today's quarterback matchup. Larry Smith will have a live report from Jacksonville a little later in the hour.
And up next, he was Woodward and Bernstein's secret source. And he helped bring down Richard Nixon's presidency. Now, could a health cries reveal once and for all who was "Deep Throat?"
Plus, the terrifying power of nuclear weapons. Is a scientist from a crucial U.S. ally helping Arab nations get their hands on nuclear secrets?
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ROMANS: He is call the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb. A hero in his own country, A.Q. Kahn is revialed in the community. He stunned the world last year by admitting he shared nuclear secrets with other nations including Iran, North Korea and Libya. But the damage may have not stopped there: this week, "Time" magazine devotse its cover story to suspicions that Khan's network may have sold nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.
The story also examines possible links to al Qaeda and Iran.
"Time" correspondent Elaine Shannon contributed to the report. She joins us now from Washington. I think the name of the piece, "Merchant of Menace," says it all. What are we learning about A.Q. Khan, what he was selling and how widely and aggressively he was selling it throughout the Arab world and Africa?
ELAINE SHANNON, TIME: Well, we don't know as much as the United States and the international community want to know, but what we are hearing is he traveled a lot, he visited some countries that are interesting, like, Saudi Arabia and Egypt as well as african source countries for uranium. The U.S. wants Kahn to be questioned much more aggressively on what he sold to those countries beyond the countries we already know about: Iran, Libya and North Korea.
ROMANS: Here is the trick, Pakistan is an ally of the United States. And Pakistan is being cagey about letting I.A.E.A. or the United States actually conduct any of this questioning of him, right?
SHANNON: Right. In fact, President Bush himself raised this issue with President Musharraf, the president of Pakistan around Christmas. They had a meeting and President Bush pushed for direct interviews of A.Q. Kahn. And president Musharraf said, no, only Pakistanis would interview him. But we could -- the U.S. could send him written questions and they'd make sure that they were put to him.
ROMANS: What does the United States wants to know and wants to know who he talked to? Who he sold what to? And eventually, if any of those people may have had ties to terrorism and al Qaeda and how this could come back to haunt us, right?
SHANNON: Sure. There are a lot of very bothersome questions. It is believed, and Pakistani investigators themselves I think believe this, that he had ties to some Pakistani military people who may have sympathies with radical movements, including the Taliban. So we haven't seen any of those people taken off or arrested. We don't know that the whole network is gone. A lot of it may still be there.
ROMANS: Saudi arabia and Egypt: had there been any indications before, any concerns before that these two countries in particular were looking for nuclear information or trying to build nuclear capabilities?
SHANNON: If they were, they were whispy. And I don't think this is a confirmed case. But there are some troubling questions that have come up. In fact, we have been told by our sources in Pakistan that among the questions that the U.S. has forwarded to Pakistan are questions about Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries and whether they also got some of this technology.
ROMANS: Meanwhile, Iran, at least the rhetoric ratcheting a little bit this weekend. Let's talk a bit about how many meetings the Kahn network had with Tehran. And how much information we think or we know has already been passed on to that country.
SHANNON: Well, we were told about -- that Iran has admitted about 13 meetings with Kahn. One big question that we don't know the answer to is whether Kahn gave Iran an actual warhead design. The Libyans did get an actual warhead design as well as information about how to make a centrifuge, which is the way you enrich uranium to make the bomb core.
Iran certainly got material on the centrifuges and the parts. Or at least that's the understands of the U.S. and the I.A.E.A. and so did North Korea.
There are a lot of questions, but I think the U.S. position is very clear that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. This is something they deny.
ROMANS: All right. Elaine Shannon, thank you very much. It's "The Merchant of Menace" in "Time" magazine on newsstands now.
He is one of most mysterious figures in American political history, "Deep Throat." The elusive source that delivered tips to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during the Watergate scandal. It brought down Richard Nixon. Woodward promised to keep his ident a secret until the source died, could that be soon? Here is our Howard Kurtz.
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ROBERT REDFORD, ACTOR: Stories stalled on us.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you thought I'd know?
HOWARD KURTZ, CNN HOST, "RELIABLE SOURCES": He's the most famous secret source in journalistic history, the man who whispered Watergate secrets to Bob Woodward in a parking garage, played by Hal Holbrook in the movie "All the President's Men."
More than three decades later, could we be closer to learning the identity of Deep Throat. John Dean, the Nixon White House aid who went to jail over the Watergate cover-up, says we might. Writing in Sunday's "Los Angeles Times," Dean says that Deep Throat, the man, we do know he's a man, who helped bring down President Nixon is ill.
What's more, says Dean, Woodward has told the editor of "The Washington Post" about the illness. How exactly does Dean know this? He's got his own Deep Throat, a source he won't identify, who gave him the information.
Woodward declined to comment Sunday about any alleged illness, but confirmed that former Post editor Ben Bradley, the only other person beside Woodward and Carl Bernstein who knows Throat's identity has said publicly that the obituary is already written.
At the very least, "The Post" has the material ready.
Journalists are increasingly on the defensive about their use of confidential sources. "New York Times" reporter Judith Miller and "TIME" magazine's Matthew Cooper are facing possible jail terms for refusing to disclose which Bush administration official or officials talked to them about Valerie Plane, the CIA operative whose role was leaked to columnist and CNN "CROSSFIRE" host, Bob Novak.
Other journalists could face jail over anonymous sources in the case of Wen Ho Lee, the former nuclear weapons scientist suing to find out who gave his name to reporters, including one former CNN correspondent.
Last week's opening of an exhibit of Woodward and Bernstein's paper is at the University of Texas rekindled interest in Deep Throat, who is still held up as a good source, a classic example of a whistleblower who needed to be protected by the press.
But who was Deep Throat? What was his motivation? And why did he betray Richard Nixon? If John Dean is right, we may soon be able to answer those lingering questions.
Howard Kurtz, CNN, Washington.
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ROMANS: The current executive editor of the Post, Len Downie tells Howard Kurtz that Woodward has not contacted him to say that "Deep Throat" is ill.
A papal appearance raises new questions. After the break why some were questioning whether the pope's blessing today was recorded or live.
And still to come, why the same can of beer can have a different affect on each individual.
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ROMANS: Frail looking but alert. Pope John Paul II appeared at his hospital window in Rome today. He spoke with great difficulty, but it did give the public its first chance him since he was hospitalized for breathing problems. Our Alessio Vinci has more on the pope's brief appearance.
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ALLESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over: Bearly able to pronounce even just a few words, but nevertheless, determined to come out before the world. Pope John Paul II made his first public appearance since last Sunday. But he needed to read his short blessing to the faithful. A simple message he has delivered thousands of times in the past.
His face partly hidden by a sheet of paper he was reading from led some in the Italian media to speculate his voice was recorded and not live something the Vatican flatly denies.
VINCI: The pope sat for 10 minutes at his hospital window thrown wide open as an aid read the message and a prayer on his behalf.
The pontiff's blessing was relayed live on giant screens in St. Peter's Square reassuring a few thousand pilgrams who had gathered as they do every Sunday at midday.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are concerned about his health. But we think that he's helped by something bigger than him, so he's in good health.
VINCI: Traditionally, the pope's Sunday prayer are received from his Vatican study window. And though he could not be there this time, his message was clearly aimed at those who might be doubting his ability to lead the church.
"Also, in this hospital in the middle of other sick people to whom my affectionate thoughts go out," the pope said through his aide, "I can continue to serve the church and all of humanity."
Under the watchful eye of numerous police officers, a group of faithful were happy to have caught a glimpse of the ailing pope.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE; Even though he's sick at this moment, in the spirit, he's really healthy and praying for us. And also, I think lots of people are praying at same time and he's going to be in really good health I hope soon.
VINCI (on camera): Despite Sunday's appearance, concern over the pope's health remains high. We still don't know when he'll be leaving this hospital. And for the first time in his papacy, john Paul II will not be attending services on Ash Wednesday at the Vatican, marking the beginning of Lent. Alessio Vinci, CNN, Rome.
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ROMANS: Less than 2 hours and counting, the world will be watching as Tom Brady and the Patriots try to keep their title as the best team in football. We'll have a live report from Jacksonville next.
Plus, it's an organization that you may have never heard of, but it's gaining a lot of power over what you watch on television. We'll explain how the Parents Television Council is influencing Hollywood and Capitol Hill.
Plus, why a growing number of Americans are spending their golden years on college campuses.
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ROMANS: Here's what's happening now in the news. Iran says President Bush has no authority to accuse it of sponsoring terrorism in Wednesday's State of the Union Address. Iran's foreign minister today accused the U.S. of supporting of what Iran calls Zionist terrorists and using military prison that uses torture.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Jerusalem for meetings with Israeli leaders on the Mideast peace process. She plans to meet with Palestinian leaders tomorrow. Rice tells CNN a prime U.S. concern is helping with security in the region. Police in Huntsville, Alabama have released this mugshot of the woman they've charged with killing her 3 children. Officers say Natce Ward (ph) has confessed to deliberately starving the 3 youngsters to death. Police found their bodies in her apartment Friday.
More than 50 law enforcement agencies are in Jacksonville, Florida trying to make sure terrorism doesn't mar this evening Super Bowl. Among the security measures, customs and border protection pilots are enforcing a 30-mile no-fly zone above the 80,000 fans packing Alltel Stadium. Two hours and counting until Super Bowl XXXIX officially kicks off in Jacksonville, Eagles and Patriots fans are literally counting down the minutes until game time.
For a preview, let's go now to Jacksonville live and CNN's Larry Smith. Hi Larry.
LARRY SMITH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi Christine. How are you? Yes, the fans have been working themselves up to a fevered pitch in the last several hours and now getting ready for this game. The Eagles trying to win their first ever Super Bowl championship. The Patriots trying to repeat as NFL champions and win their third title in four years.
Now again because the security measures, there are already working their way into Alltel Stadium just across the St. John's River. More than 80,000 fans are getting ready. You can see in fact, some fans already in the stadium, let's look at tonight's super match up.
SMITH (voice over): The New England Patriots have won the last eight postseason games and while there has been little confusion over how they beat opponents, their victories have left a trail of confounded quarterbacks scratching their heads.
ROMAN PHIFER, PATRIOTS LINEBACKER: They're not sure who is coming, blitzing, who dropping back in coverage.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Disguise and confusion is so important especially nowadays with quarterbacks being so smart.
SMITH: The Patriots constantly switch their defensive alignments, using various disguises for their pass coverage. It makes every Sunday feel like Halloween for quarterbacks. And the tricks the Patriots play have led to treating themselves to 14 interceptions in those eight playoff wins.
PHIFER: It's a complex defense with a lot of moving parts. I think any quarterback is going to give them some trouble with our disguise and in our moving around and definitely it's a big part of us getting turnovers.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's hard to confuse a guy like Donovan McNabb. Because they have seen so many different looks. But I think it still helps.
DONAVAN MCNABB, EAGLES QUARTERBACK: You have to be patient first and foremost. You know when you are playing a team like this that kind of strives off a turn over and strives off of mistakes, you have to be cautious and be able to execute.
SMITH: The commotion caused by New England's defense has made effective by the calm with which their offense plays. Quarterback Tom Brady has thrown just three interceptions in his undefeated playoff career. But the Eagles will try to use their own defensive camouflage to hid a blitzing attack and accomplish the rarest of football feats fluster the unflappable Brady.
BRIAN DAWKINS, EAGLES SAFETY: I don't know about rattling. You try to shake them a little bit, but I don't think he ever gets rattled.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I honestly can't recall a time. I am quite sure its happened before but even if he gets frustrated, he does a really great job of handling it and keeping it in control.
TOM BRADY, TWO TIME SUPER BOWL MVP: He is trying to prepare for what they did but also at the same time, you try to prepare for things they might do.
SMITH: If successful, Brady might be preparing for a record tying third Super Bowl MVP Award.
(on camera): Well, here are some of those fans waiting for the water taxi. How unusual is this here in Jacksonville? Where else can you take a water taxi to go to the Super Bowl? Mother nature has finally come through. The best weather of the week. It's been beautiful. Temperatures in the 60s. Dropping here before game time. The wind has calmed down. It's an absolutely gorgeous day. We have some Philadelphia fans neighbor by, it seems outnumbered Patriot fans 10-to-1. Maybe Patriot fans are getting use to this, I don't they won it last year and won it two years before that. Red Sox finally won a World Series. Maybe it is becoming old hat to the New Englanders. I don't know lets go back to you.
ROMANS: Philly hasn't been to the Super Bowl in how long?
SMITH: I am sorry, Philadelphia has never won a Super Bowl last -- one more time?
ROMANS: How long, they haven't -- Philly hasn't been to the Super Bowl in how long? They haven't won one even longer that's why there are so many Eagles fans there, right?
SMITH: Exactly. Philadelphia, the Eagles have never won a Super Bowl, last time they were in it was 1981. They lost 27-10 to the Oakland Raiders in New Orleans that year. Philly hasn't won a pro- championship since the Sixers won the MBA finals in 1983. They haven't won a major title since Villanova upset in 1985. It's been a long time coming for Philadelphia and they think tonight's the night they will finally get done. ROMANS: All right even if they don't have a ticket, they are still there in Jacksonville, just to soak it in. Larry Smith thank you very much.
It's been a year since Janet Jackson's famous wardrobe malfunction. An uproar of public outrage followed last year's Super Bowl halftime incident and now CNN's David Mattingly brings us the story of group of the center of the storm and what it is doing to clean up the public airwaves.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We kissed, FYI.
DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The next time you sit down to enjoy your favorite show, think about this -- someone else is watching the same program. Looking for potentially offensive material and if necessary, ready to call the authorities.
BRENT BOZELL, PARENTS TELEVISION COUN.FOUNDER: What I like in a perfect world? I'd simply like Hollywood to go back to what it once did better than anyone, which is tell the American story and tell it correctly, respecting the audience.
MATTINGLY: Brent Bozell is the founder and president of the Parents Television Council. An organization now playing a leading role in one of the most politically charged dramas in Washington. The push, to clean up prime-time TV. It's a campaign that's been gaining momentum ever since halftime at last year's Super Bowl.
BOZELL: I think what it did was to show the nation's largest audience exactly what is going on in some circles in Hollywood, perverting the popular culture.
MATTINGLY: Eight hours a day, five days a week, PTC analysts pour over every minute of prime-time shows, and catalog incidents of the big three: sex, violence and bad language. And since they began 10 years ago, they claim to have documented a trend.
MELISSA CALDWELL, PTC RESEARCH DIRECTOR: Not only are we seeing quantitatively much more violence, sexual content and violent language but qualitative what are we seeing is much, much worse.
MATTINGLY: They also take note of advertisers and examine more subtle content they consider detrimental to the image of families. Take for example, this scene between a married woman and another married man. From the hit show "Desperate Housewives."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really need our friendship back.
CALDWELL: We would record it in our database as a marriage relationship but treatment of marriage relationship. There are certain topics like that that we will track. MATTINGLY: The findings are collected for research and folded into the PTC Web site. That's where they also post a rating system. In the last week of January, only three out of the top 20 shows were green lighted for family viewing. A committee also selects the worst clips of the week, and encourages members to complain to the FCC. The networks, and the advertisers.
JIM LEMON, PTC MEMBER: I think it's worst message we can send to kids is adults don't care about the messages they're exposed to.
MATTINGLY: Jim Lemons he was just a typical parent watching the Super Bowl with his family last year. He was so outraged at Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction that he joined the 40,000 new names on the PTC's e-mail alert list in 2004. Now a 100,000 strong, they say, it's a cyber army, capable of instantly firing off hundreds of complaints in electronic forms on the PTC Web site. This amounts to what some have labeled a complaint factory.
ADAM THERER, CATO INSTITUTE: Recent surveys have revealed that upwards 98 to 99 percent of the complaints filed with the FCC about certain types of shows on television or radio are filed by the Parent's Television's Council.
MATTINGLY: Parents Television Council's offices actually look more like a warehouse than a factory. We found stacks and stacks of video videotapes, 100,000 hours of recorded prime time programming in all. Each of them containing evidence the PTC now uses to drive a legislative agenda.
MATTINGLY (on camera): The council is aggressively lobbying Congress for passage of much bigger fines for broadcasters and for a law that would force the FCC to act more quickly on all those complaints its members are filing. And this week, the PTC labeled MTV a smut peddler. The first shock in a new fight over basic cable where the FCC has no jurisdiction over content it's part of an agenda critics call censorship.
THERER: They claim victory in things like getting Howard Stern driven off of the public airwaves. Or getting Fox television fined $1.2 million dollars for some of their latest indecency fights. So you can't claim that you're not in favor of censorship if you're boasting getting personalities driven off the airwaves as a success story.
BOZELL: They're saying that they have the right to say whatever they want on the public airwaves. But those who own the public airwaves -- if they exercised their free speech and speak out against it. Who's the censor here?
MATTINGLY (voice over): Observers say the hand of the PTC is among those at work in the added sensitivity surrounding this year's Super Bowl ad and the scrutiny at the halftime shows. And if it becomes something more than a football game, this is one watch dog ready to bite. David Mattingly, CNN, Washington.
ROMANS: Could Iraq be a key to fighting alcoholism? A new study finds that might one day help humans who humans who have alcohol problems.
And did you get a chance to watch the SAG Awards last night? No. Well, we have the winners and losers when we come back.
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ROMANS: As President Bush pushes his plan to overhaul Social Security for future generations, some are finding they don't have the means to retire now. That lack of financial security is sending seniors back to college in droves to learn new skills. Lindsey Aaron reports.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have several things we need to accomplish today.
LINDSEY AARON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): At 56, Lawanna Hatcher is hard to miss among her freshman classmates at the College of Southern Maryland but despite the nearly 40-year age difference, Hatcher's life and financial situation is as uncertain as the students who surround her.
LAWANNA HATCHER, STUDENT: I have to start from scratch and get something in a very short time. Because I don't have the privilege of having, you know, 30 years before I can retire.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning.
AARON: Like many student, Hatcher works on campus, lives at home with her parents, and has few marketable job skills. A recent divorce left the mother of three grown children with a broken home and a barren saving's account.
HATCHER: We were taught, you get out of high school, get married and have kids and you go from there. That's it. Happily ever after. Well, it doesn't work out that way.
AARON: Hatcher joins a growing number of older Americans returning to school, seeking new job skills and looking to squeeze out a few more years of income before retirement.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A lot of the statistics are showing that people who retire are then staying retired for a year. And then deciding, oh, no, either I can't afford this or I'm not happy because I'm healthy, I can work and they're look for new careers so they're coming back to us for training.
AARON: The number of Americans over 50 entering colleges and universities has steadily grown over the last decade. From more than 417,000 in 1993 to nearly 590,000 in 2001, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
ROBERTT BIXBY, EXEC. DIR, CONCORD COALITION: It's frankly a lesson to the younger boomers and the Gen Xer's that you do need to save during your working years and you can't just rely on Social Security to get you through.
AARON: Hatcher who studying to be a radiology nurse says returning to school was terrifying.
HATCHER: Walk in, sit down and all of the kids look at you and you go, oh, what are they looking at me for?
AARON: It was an adjustment for her classmates, too.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She has a lot that she knows of and it is kind of cool because you don't...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It really plants the idea that life-long learning is important.
HATCHER: Thanks.
AARON: Hatcher says the life lessons she's learned are invaluable.
HATCHER Just go for it. That's all you can do. Because there is no guarantee of security for tomorrow.
AARON: Lindsey Aaron for CNN, Washington.
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ROMANS: A judge in Chicago says a couple may sue for wrongful death over discarded frozen embryos ruling that an embryo is a human being. The couple had stored nine embryos at a Chicago Fertility Clinic in 2000 later the clinic inadvertently destroyed them. The judge sited a Illinois state law.
A new study on alcohol and genetics is revealing some interesting insights. According to the journal nature neuroscience, researchers have discovered a mutant gene that makes lab rats more sensitive to alcohol. It allows them to get drunk quicker, making them less likely to become alcohol dependent. Scientists are excited about the findings. Future studies on the gene could help identify which individuals may be predisposed to alcoholism.
Tom Otis is a UCLA neurobiologist and he is one of the scientists who authored the study. Thank you for joining us.
THOMAS OTIS, UCLA NEUROBIOLOGIST: Sure. It's my pleasure Christine.
ROMANS: What could your findings potentially do in the help of treatment of alcoholism in people?
OTIS: Well, we've identified a target for alcohol, which we think is important in the brand. And this target hopefully will focus our efforts so that we can understand some of the basic mechanisms of how alcohol depend ends occur.
ROMANS: Essentially in the rat you found a genetic mutation that makes the same amount of alcohol for one rat more effective on another. Essentially these rats were born with different tolerance levels for alcohol.
OTIS: Yes that's right. By more effective, you mean they get drunk faster, yes. The rats that we've studied with this variation get drunk. And specifically, they are made much more uncoordinated by the same dose of alcohol.
ROMANS: And that mutation actually prevents alcoholism?
OTIS: Well...
ROMANS: Or would suggest?
OTIS: That we don't know. We're hopeful that further study will be able to make use of this target and look at whether or not it predisposes people either to be more likely to become alcohol dependent or less.
ROMANS: Because indeed this is a study in rats not in people?
OTIS: That's right.
ROMANS: So how helpful can it be? What other studies do you need to do to find out -- for example in human, a beer for one person is definitely not the same for a beer for another person.
OTIS: Yes that's right. We think that other researchers will take advantage of our identification of this target. And look for variations in humans. So that might be the sort of quickest thing that people will do, researchers will do.
ROMANS: It's interesting because just sort of human experience I think shows that there are a lot of people agree that tolerance and alcoholism seems to be something in humans that is passed down or is genetic. What kind of work has been done in this area and how what you have done with rats fit into this idea that maybe alcoholism is something that is a medical condition that is something that is genetic?
OTIS: Right, well it's clear that there aren't any directly genetic components of alcoholism. What I mean by that is that, it's not like you for sure know that you have inherited the propensity for alcoholism. Rather, we think are there probably many genes. And I think that the gene that we've identified is, there's at least a clear connection to alcohol intoxication and the notion is that, for people who -- for whom it maybe more difficult to get drunk, that if they have that kind of a variation that that may predispose them to alcoholism. Of course this is far from proven. A lot of additional research will be required.
ROMANS: Dr. Thomas Otis, we thank you for bringing the research that you have brought to us very interesting stuff. Thanks.
OTIS: Thank you.
ROMANS: And now Carol Lin is here with a preview of what is going on. (INAUDIBLE)
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: That's right, 6:00 Eastern, we are going to have the latest on a Republican mayor who is actually for gay marriage in his state. So you'll find out more details about that. 10:00 tonight on our prime-time show, we have an exclusive report by Nic Robertson about insurgent confessions on videotape now. Very interesting how they detail their crimes. Human rights abuses, though, are being alleged in the process. So we've got more on that controversy at 10:00 tonight.
ROMANS: Turning the tables a bit, perhaps.
LIN: You bet and very gruesome in the details they give in the crimes they have committed.
ROMANS: Interesting. All right, Carol Lin 6:00 and 10:00, thanks Carol. SAG Awards went to Oscar hopefuls last night. Some probably expected, some maybe not. Our Sibila Vargas reports on the night's awards when we come back.
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ROMANS: It's party time in Rio De Janeiro, the cities world famous carnival celebration is in full swing. It all started Friday, wraps up on Wednesday. Nearly 800,000 tourists are expected to descend on Rio for the celebration. The stars glittered in Los Angeles last night, where Hollywood's elite turned out for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. CNN's Sibila Vargas was there.
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SIBILA VARGAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): It was a night for actors, by actors and about actors.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We'd like to use this award to ring the death now to reality television.
VARGAS: The "Desperate Housewives'" cast picked up actor statures from ensemble in a comedy series while Teri Hatcher was recognized for her role in the show.
TERI HATCHER, BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY: I came to Los Angeles as a dancing extra in the "Love Boat."
VARGAS: Tony Shalub and Geoffrey Rush were each honored with individual awards. "Law & Order's" Jerry Orbach received the make actor in a drama series. His wife accepted the award.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How bittersweet, but it's still sweet.
VARGAS: "Alias" star Jennifer Garner picked up a stature for her dramatic role.
JENNIFER GARNER: We're so lucky to have this job. We had a blast.
VARGAS: And Glenn Close referred to a letter she got from Katharine Hepburn when accepting her award for female actor in a television or mini series role.
GLENN CLOSE, ACTRESS: I'm glad I persuade you when you were a mere child should join this terrible profession.
VARGAS: Quadruple nominee Jamie Foxx blew his lines not only once, but twice.
JAMIE FOXX, ACTOR: Nominated for...
VARGAS: The third was a charm.
FOXX: Nominated for ensemble cast.
VARGAS: From the small screen to the big screen, it was a knockout night for two actors for "Million Dollar Baby."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The actor goes to Hilary Swank.
HILARY SWANK, ACTRESS: I am amazed, lucky, thankful, speechless and quite frankly quite stunned to be a working actor.
VARGAS: Hilary Swank was honored for female actor in a leading role while her co-star 67-year-old Morgan Freeman received a statue for an actor in a supporting role. The screen actors gild recognized James Garner for a lifetime of achievements. While Cate Blanchett's portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in "Aviator " earned her a supporting award.
CATE BLANCHETT, ACTRESS: I don't know where to begin, I am overwhelmed.
VARGAS: Not as overwhelmed as the actors from "Sideways" they received outstanding performance by a cast in a motion-picture. Jamie Foxx's portrayal of Ray Charles received yet another nod. He offered this sound advice.
FOXX: If you win or if you lose, keep walking in the same direction.
VARGAS: Sibilia Vargas, CNN, Los Angeles.
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ROMANS: And that's it for us. "NEXT@CNN" is straight ahead. And here is Daniel Siegberg with a preview.
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN ANCHOR: Ahead on "Next@CNN," behind the scenes at the Super Bowl. Ways to keep a lid on your kid's computer time and crocodiles that are too lazy to mate. ROMANS: And then at 6:00 Eastern hear from one couple at the center of the battle to make gay marriage legal in New York. Thank you for joining us. Back with headlines after a quick break.
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CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN ANCHOR: Could this man be the world's merchant of nuclear menace? How the father of Pakistan's nuclear program may have put his dangerous knowledge tose in the Arab world.
The unknown figure behind the Watergate scandal that ended a presidency. Now, the nation may be one step closer to finding out "Deep Throat's" identity. We'll explain why.
Plus, the power of intoxication: How your genes can affect how much you can drink. We'll tell you about a new study that may one day help those battling with addiction.
Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY. I Am Christine romans in for Fredricka Whitfield. All of that and more after this check of the headlines.
President Bush has called the world's leading sponsor of terrorism. Now Iran is lashing back. Iranian officials are giving their first reactions to the president's warning from his State of the Union Address. We'll have a live report from the White House in just a moment.
And another first, this one from Rome. Pope John Paul II made his first public appearance today since being hospitalized with breathing trouble. He had problems speaking. His voice has been weakened by a respiratory infection making it difficult to understand him.
And 2 1/2 hours from now and counting down for the start of the Super Bowl XXXIX. Security is tight at Alltel Stadium. And both teams are psyching themselves up for the big game. A live report from Jacksonville, Florida, coming up.
It's already part of President Bush's "axis of evil." Now Iran is under scrutiny for its human rights record, its alleged sponsorship of terror and most of all its nuclear program. Today, the country fired back at President Bush and the warning he issued in his State of the Union speech. CNN White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux joins us now with the details -- Suzanne.
SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Christine, this time the State of the Union President Bush did not call Iran the "axis of evil," but he did come pretty close. The president saying that today Iran remains the world's primary state sponsor of terror pursuing nuclear weapons while depriving its people the freedom they seek and deserve.
The president also of course giving his unequivocal support to Irani reformers, those who are seeking regime change. Well, today, on this day, Iranian leadership fired back saying that any aggressive military action by the U.S. would be answered in kind.
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HASSAN ROHANI, IRAN'S SUPREME NATION SECURITY COUNCIL (through translator): I don't think America itself will take such a risk, because America knows very well that we will strongly answer such an attack. The Americans are very well aware of our capabilities. They know our capabilities for retaliating against such attacks.
I do not think in their final calculations they will take such risks. Besides, in case of any such attacks, we will definitely have greater motivation to make our fuel cycle and will accelerate it.
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MALVEAUX: But top White House officials insist that the U.S. is not interested in a military strike, rather they are emphasizing diplomatic means, working with European allies to try to convince that Tehran regime to abondon its nuclear ambitions. Today we heard from Secretary of State Rice, we also heard as well from Vice President Dick Cheney. Both of them believe that Tehran's aggressive language today is a sign of desperation.
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DICK CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We are moving to support efforts to resolve it diplomatically. If this process breaks down, the next step probably is go back to the board of governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency. And ultimately refer to the United Nations Security Council for the imposition of international sanctions on Iran.
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MALVEAUX: Now Christine, of course in a clear sign the administration is really trying to downplay any kind of potential conflict with Iran, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hit at least 4 different talk shows today. Had very little to say on the subject rather, rather he defered it to the president and his secretary of state saying it was not a matter that he would discuss -- Christine.
ROMANS: And, Suzanne, Iran is essentially saying, how dare the United States criticize Iran, when the United States has Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo Bay. Iran saying that military prisons with torture. Any response from the White House on those charges?
MALVEAUX: Well, certainly the White House feels that it's done discussions the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. Secretary Rumsfeld, of course, having to answer many questions on that. Even saying that on previous occasions he had offered his letter of resignation to the president, which of course the president did not accept. But what the White House is saying is they feel the European allies, speaking with Iranian regime are trying to work this thing diplomatically. That they can use certain economic incentives as well. They say if all of this falls apart, they can simply refer to the International Atomic Energy Agency. And say, look, we need to refer to thto the U.N. Security Council and impose economic sanctions on Iran essentially isolating it from the rest of the world. They believe they can be effective in that way.
ROMANS: All right. Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. Thank you Suzanne.
I will have much more on the nuclear threat in the Middle East later in the show. "Time" magazine devotes its cover story of the merchant of menace, the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb. Did he sell the technology to Saudi Arabia and other Arab states? We'll talk with a "Time" correspondent who contributed to that article.
A time of optimism: That's how Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is describing the mood right now in the Middle East. She's on a 2 day diplomatic mission in the region.
CNN's State Department correspondent Andrea Koppel is in Jerusalem.
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ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Secretary Rice arrived in Israel, and made the rounds, but unlike previous visits by her predecessor former secretary of state Colin Powell, Rice was greeted by something unusual a new sense of hope.
SILVAN SHALOM, ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER: We are ready for a new opportunity that we are determined to seize on Tuesday's summit in Sharm Sheik is a very important event, but the real test is for actions.
KOPPEL (voice-over): Secretary Rice called this a time of opportunity and hopes to seize momentum that the U.S. believes is now there following the death of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and the Democratic election of Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas.
CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: There a need to help the Palestinians with the development of the Democratic institutions that will form the foundation of a statehood. And to make certain that we are all doing what we can for peace.
KOPPEL (on camera): Secretary Rice is scheduled to meet the new Palestinian leadership in Ramallah. Her visit also comes on the eve of the highest level meeting between the Israelis and Palestinians in over 4 years.
A summit in Egypt where the 2 sides were expected to sign a cease-fire agreement. In the hopes of making goodwill gestures, Israel has aglide to release hundreds of Palestinian prisoners who haven't committed acts of violence against Israel, while on the Palestinian side in recent days, Palestinian security forces have closed down tunnels, which have been used to smuggle arms, according to Israel, from Egypt.
Andrea Koppel, CNN, Jerusalem.
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ROMANS: Another stumbling block on the road to democracy in Iraq. A week after Iraq's landmark election, a key Sunni Muslim group tells CNN it will not participate in drafting a new constitution while Iraq is under occupation. The Association of Muslim Scholars says the government won't be legitimate, because so many Sunnis boycotted the vote. Its asking the United States to refuse to endorse the results which are expected later this week.
Insurgents have taken 4 Egyptian workers hostage in Iraq. The were seized outside of their home in Western Baghdad this morning. They had been working for a telecommunications company in Iraq for about a year. So far there' no word on any demands from the hostage takers.
Farther South, a U.S. marine has been killed in the trouble Babil Province. The marine died while conducting security and stability operations yesterday.
Back home, all eyes are on Jacksonville, Florida om this Super Bowl Sunday. And we're not just talking about football fans, but the tens of thousands of security personnel and high-tech gadgets in place for the big game.
CNN National Correspondent Susan Candiotti shows us how one tool in particular is keeping the Super Bowl super safe.
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MIKE GRAY, DHS MARINE ENFORCEMENT: What we're looking for is movement, any suspicious movement.
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mike Gray works marine enforcement for the Department of Homeland Security. On night patrol, he's part of a team helping to protect Alltel stadium and the waterfront. Before, during and after the Super Bowl, there will be a constant stream of patrol boats along the St. Johns River, the one equipped with FLIR will have an added advantage.
FLIR stands for forward looking infrared. It's been around of years and at Super Bowl XXXIX, FLIR's a helpful tool for Mike Gray. FLIR's infrared camera mounted atop a boat can turn on command and seeking heat, reverses a target's image.
GRAY: I got a good view of rooftops, got a good view of the back alleys that are along some of these warehouse areas about a mile back of us. We look along there. We look along the bridges for anybody crawling around a bridge, where they shouldn't be crawling around.
CANDIOTTI: Pleasure boats are allowed to cruise the river, but not during the game.
GRAY: Camera's really having a hard time doing it, because of the night. It's a daytime camera. We switch over to FLIR, I can see I've got right now two POBs, two persons on board, one with a flashlight just closed the cooler and is putting the cooler down, lay the flashlight down and is now transiting right in front of us.
CANDIOTTI: Mike Kaliss is one of thousands partying on the water. He says he understands that times have changed.
MIKE KALISS, JACKSONVILLE RESIDENT: I'm pleased actually to see somebody out here to stop us. They gave us (INAUDIBLE) verified the registration for the boat and legitimate owner for the boat as well.
CANDIOTTI: One chapter of the playbook and one more high tech gizmo to help keep Super Bowl fans safe. Susan Candiotti, CNN, Jacksonville, Florida.
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ROMANS: For an exclusive, behind the scenes, all-access look at the security in place for the Super Bowl, watch CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING." CNN will have exclusive access to the command center in Jacksonville. It all begins Monday at 7:00 am Eastern, 4:00 Pacific.
Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
From what's going on off the field to what's going on on the field, our look at Super Bowl Sunday continues with the preview of today's quarterback matchup. Larry Smith will have a live report from Jacksonville a little later in the hour.
And up next, he was Woodward and Bernstein's secret source. And he helped bring down Richard Nixon's presidency. Now, could a health cries reveal once and for all who was "Deep Throat?"
Plus, the terrifying power of nuclear weapons. Is a scientist from a crucial U.S. ally helping Arab nations get their hands on nuclear secrets?
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ROMANS: He is call the father of Pakistan's nuclear bomb. A hero in his own country, A.Q. Kahn is revialed in the community. He stunned the world last year by admitting he shared nuclear secrets with other nations including Iran, North Korea and Libya. But the damage may have not stopped there: this week, "Time" magazine devotse its cover story to suspicions that Khan's network may have sold nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries.
The story also examines possible links to al Qaeda and Iran.
"Time" correspondent Elaine Shannon contributed to the report. She joins us now from Washington. I think the name of the piece, "Merchant of Menace," says it all. What are we learning about A.Q. Khan, what he was selling and how widely and aggressively he was selling it throughout the Arab world and Africa?
ELAINE SHANNON, TIME: Well, we don't know as much as the United States and the international community want to know, but what we are hearing is he traveled a lot, he visited some countries that are interesting, like, Saudi Arabia and Egypt as well as african source countries for uranium. The U.S. wants Kahn to be questioned much more aggressively on what he sold to those countries beyond the countries we already know about: Iran, Libya and North Korea.
ROMANS: Here is the trick, Pakistan is an ally of the United States. And Pakistan is being cagey about letting I.A.E.A. or the United States actually conduct any of this questioning of him, right?
SHANNON: Right. In fact, President Bush himself raised this issue with President Musharraf, the president of Pakistan around Christmas. They had a meeting and President Bush pushed for direct interviews of A.Q. Kahn. And president Musharraf said, no, only Pakistanis would interview him. But we could -- the U.S. could send him written questions and they'd make sure that they were put to him.
ROMANS: What does the United States wants to know and wants to know who he talked to? Who he sold what to? And eventually, if any of those people may have had ties to terrorism and al Qaeda and how this could come back to haunt us, right?
SHANNON: Sure. There are a lot of very bothersome questions. It is believed, and Pakistani investigators themselves I think believe this, that he had ties to some Pakistani military people who may have sympathies with radical movements, including the Taliban. So we haven't seen any of those people taken off or arrested. We don't know that the whole network is gone. A lot of it may still be there.
ROMANS: Saudi arabia and Egypt: had there been any indications before, any concerns before that these two countries in particular were looking for nuclear information or trying to build nuclear capabilities?
SHANNON: If they were, they were whispy. And I don't think this is a confirmed case. But there are some troubling questions that have come up. In fact, we have been told by our sources in Pakistan that among the questions that the U.S. has forwarded to Pakistan are questions about Saudi Arabia and other Arab countries and whether they also got some of this technology.
ROMANS: Meanwhile, Iran, at least the rhetoric ratcheting a little bit this weekend. Let's talk a bit about how many meetings the Kahn network had with Tehran. And how much information we think or we know has already been passed on to that country.
SHANNON: Well, we were told about -- that Iran has admitted about 13 meetings with Kahn. One big question that we don't know the answer to is whether Kahn gave Iran an actual warhead design. The Libyans did get an actual warhead design as well as information about how to make a centrifuge, which is the way you enrich uranium to make the bomb core.
Iran certainly got material on the centrifuges and the parts. Or at least that's the understands of the U.S. and the I.A.E.A. and so did North Korea.
There are a lot of questions, but I think the U.S. position is very clear that Iran has a nuclear weapons program. This is something they deny.
ROMANS: All right. Elaine Shannon, thank you very much. It's "The Merchant of Menace" in "Time" magazine on newsstands now.
He is one of most mysterious figures in American political history, "Deep Throat." The elusive source that delivered tips to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein during the Watergate scandal. It brought down Richard Nixon. Woodward promised to keep his ident a secret until the source died, could that be soon? Here is our Howard Kurtz.
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ROBERT REDFORD, ACTOR: Stories stalled on us.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you thought I'd know?
HOWARD KURTZ, CNN HOST, "RELIABLE SOURCES": He's the most famous secret source in journalistic history, the man who whispered Watergate secrets to Bob Woodward in a parking garage, played by Hal Holbrook in the movie "All the President's Men."
More than three decades later, could we be closer to learning the identity of Deep Throat. John Dean, the Nixon White House aid who went to jail over the Watergate cover-up, says we might. Writing in Sunday's "Los Angeles Times," Dean says that Deep Throat, the man, we do know he's a man, who helped bring down President Nixon is ill.
What's more, says Dean, Woodward has told the editor of "The Washington Post" about the illness. How exactly does Dean know this? He's got his own Deep Throat, a source he won't identify, who gave him the information.
Woodward declined to comment Sunday about any alleged illness, but confirmed that former Post editor Ben Bradley, the only other person beside Woodward and Carl Bernstein who knows Throat's identity has said publicly that the obituary is already written.
At the very least, "The Post" has the material ready.
Journalists are increasingly on the defensive about their use of confidential sources. "New York Times" reporter Judith Miller and "TIME" magazine's Matthew Cooper are facing possible jail terms for refusing to disclose which Bush administration official or officials talked to them about Valerie Plane, the CIA operative whose role was leaked to columnist and CNN "CROSSFIRE" host, Bob Novak.
Other journalists could face jail over anonymous sources in the case of Wen Ho Lee, the former nuclear weapons scientist suing to find out who gave his name to reporters, including one former CNN correspondent.
Last week's opening of an exhibit of Woodward and Bernstein's paper is at the University of Texas rekindled interest in Deep Throat, who is still held up as a good source, a classic example of a whistleblower who needed to be protected by the press.
But who was Deep Throat? What was his motivation? And why did he betray Richard Nixon? If John Dean is right, we may soon be able to answer those lingering questions.
Howard Kurtz, CNN, Washington.
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ROMANS: The current executive editor of the Post, Len Downie tells Howard Kurtz that Woodward has not contacted him to say that "Deep Throat" is ill.
A papal appearance raises new questions. After the break why some were questioning whether the pope's blessing today was recorded or live.
And still to come, why the same can of beer can have a different affect on each individual.
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ROMANS: Frail looking but alert. Pope John Paul II appeared at his hospital window in Rome today. He spoke with great difficulty, but it did give the public its first chance him since he was hospitalized for breathing problems. Our Alessio Vinci has more on the pope's brief appearance.
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ALLESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over: Bearly able to pronounce even just a few words, but nevertheless, determined to come out before the world. Pope John Paul II made his first public appearance since last Sunday. But he needed to read his short blessing to the faithful. A simple message he has delivered thousands of times in the past.
His face partly hidden by a sheet of paper he was reading from led some in the Italian media to speculate his voice was recorded and not live something the Vatican flatly denies.
VINCI: The pope sat for 10 minutes at his hospital window thrown wide open as an aid read the message and a prayer on his behalf.
The pontiff's blessing was relayed live on giant screens in St. Peter's Square reassuring a few thousand pilgrams who had gathered as they do every Sunday at midday.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are concerned about his health. But we think that he's helped by something bigger than him, so he's in good health.
VINCI: Traditionally, the pope's Sunday prayer are received from his Vatican study window. And though he could not be there this time, his message was clearly aimed at those who might be doubting his ability to lead the church.
"Also, in this hospital in the middle of other sick people to whom my affectionate thoughts go out," the pope said through his aide, "I can continue to serve the church and all of humanity."
Under the watchful eye of numerous police officers, a group of faithful were happy to have caught a glimpse of the ailing pope.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE; Even though he's sick at this moment, in the spirit, he's really healthy and praying for us. And also, I think lots of people are praying at same time and he's going to be in really good health I hope soon.
VINCI (on camera): Despite Sunday's appearance, concern over the pope's health remains high. We still don't know when he'll be leaving this hospital. And for the first time in his papacy, john Paul II will not be attending services on Ash Wednesday at the Vatican, marking the beginning of Lent. Alessio Vinci, CNN, Rome.
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ROMANS: Less than 2 hours and counting, the world will be watching as Tom Brady and the Patriots try to keep their title as the best team in football. We'll have a live report from Jacksonville next.
Plus, it's an organization that you may have never heard of, but it's gaining a lot of power over what you watch on television. We'll explain how the Parents Television Council is influencing Hollywood and Capitol Hill.
Plus, why a growing number of Americans are spending their golden years on college campuses.
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ROMANS: Here's what's happening now in the news. Iran says President Bush has no authority to accuse it of sponsoring terrorism in Wednesday's State of the Union Address. Iran's foreign minister today accused the U.S. of supporting of what Iran calls Zionist terrorists and using military prison that uses torture.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Jerusalem for meetings with Israeli leaders on the Mideast peace process. She plans to meet with Palestinian leaders tomorrow. Rice tells CNN a prime U.S. concern is helping with security in the region. Police in Huntsville, Alabama have released this mugshot of the woman they've charged with killing her 3 children. Officers say Natce Ward (ph) has confessed to deliberately starving the 3 youngsters to death. Police found their bodies in her apartment Friday.
More than 50 law enforcement agencies are in Jacksonville, Florida trying to make sure terrorism doesn't mar this evening Super Bowl. Among the security measures, customs and border protection pilots are enforcing a 30-mile no-fly zone above the 80,000 fans packing Alltel Stadium. Two hours and counting until Super Bowl XXXIX officially kicks off in Jacksonville, Eagles and Patriots fans are literally counting down the minutes until game time.
For a preview, let's go now to Jacksonville live and CNN's Larry Smith. Hi Larry.
LARRY SMITH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi Christine. How are you? Yes, the fans have been working themselves up to a fevered pitch in the last several hours and now getting ready for this game. The Eagles trying to win their first ever Super Bowl championship. The Patriots trying to repeat as NFL champions and win their third title in four years.
Now again because the security measures, there are already working their way into Alltel Stadium just across the St. John's River. More than 80,000 fans are getting ready. You can see in fact, some fans already in the stadium, let's look at tonight's super match up.
SMITH (voice over): The New England Patriots have won the last eight postseason games and while there has been little confusion over how they beat opponents, their victories have left a trail of confounded quarterbacks scratching their heads.
ROMAN PHIFER, PATRIOTS LINEBACKER: They're not sure who is coming, blitzing, who dropping back in coverage.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Disguise and confusion is so important especially nowadays with quarterbacks being so smart.
SMITH: The Patriots constantly switch their defensive alignments, using various disguises for their pass coverage. It makes every Sunday feel like Halloween for quarterbacks. And the tricks the Patriots play have led to treating themselves to 14 interceptions in those eight playoff wins.
PHIFER: It's a complex defense with a lot of moving parts. I think any quarterback is going to give them some trouble with our disguise and in our moving around and definitely it's a big part of us getting turnovers.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's hard to confuse a guy like Donovan McNabb. Because they have seen so many different looks. But I think it still helps.
DONAVAN MCNABB, EAGLES QUARTERBACK: You have to be patient first and foremost. You know when you are playing a team like this that kind of strives off a turn over and strives off of mistakes, you have to be cautious and be able to execute.
SMITH: The commotion caused by New England's defense has made effective by the calm with which their offense plays. Quarterback Tom Brady has thrown just three interceptions in his undefeated playoff career. But the Eagles will try to use their own defensive camouflage to hid a blitzing attack and accomplish the rarest of football feats fluster the unflappable Brady.
BRIAN DAWKINS, EAGLES SAFETY: I don't know about rattling. You try to shake them a little bit, but I don't think he ever gets rattled.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I honestly can't recall a time. I am quite sure its happened before but even if he gets frustrated, he does a really great job of handling it and keeping it in control.
TOM BRADY, TWO TIME SUPER BOWL MVP: He is trying to prepare for what they did but also at the same time, you try to prepare for things they might do.
SMITH: If successful, Brady might be preparing for a record tying third Super Bowl MVP Award.
(on camera): Well, here are some of those fans waiting for the water taxi. How unusual is this here in Jacksonville? Where else can you take a water taxi to go to the Super Bowl? Mother nature has finally come through. The best weather of the week. It's been beautiful. Temperatures in the 60s. Dropping here before game time. The wind has calmed down. It's an absolutely gorgeous day. We have some Philadelphia fans neighbor by, it seems outnumbered Patriot fans 10-to-1. Maybe Patriot fans are getting use to this, I don't they won it last year and won it two years before that. Red Sox finally won a World Series. Maybe it is becoming old hat to the New Englanders. I don't know lets go back to you.
ROMANS: Philly hasn't been to the Super Bowl in how long?
SMITH: I am sorry, Philadelphia has never won a Super Bowl last -- one more time?
ROMANS: How long, they haven't -- Philly hasn't been to the Super Bowl in how long? They haven't won one even longer that's why there are so many Eagles fans there, right?
SMITH: Exactly. Philadelphia, the Eagles have never won a Super Bowl, last time they were in it was 1981. They lost 27-10 to the Oakland Raiders in New Orleans that year. Philly hasn't won a pro- championship since the Sixers won the MBA finals in 1983. They haven't won a major title since Villanova upset in 1985. It's been a long time coming for Philadelphia and they think tonight's the night they will finally get done. ROMANS: All right even if they don't have a ticket, they are still there in Jacksonville, just to soak it in. Larry Smith thank you very much.
It's been a year since Janet Jackson's famous wardrobe malfunction. An uproar of public outrage followed last year's Super Bowl halftime incident and now CNN's David Mattingly brings us the story of group of the center of the storm and what it is doing to clean up the public airwaves.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We kissed, FYI.
DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The next time you sit down to enjoy your favorite show, think about this -- someone else is watching the same program. Looking for potentially offensive material and if necessary, ready to call the authorities.
BRENT BOZELL, PARENTS TELEVISION COUN.FOUNDER: What I like in a perfect world? I'd simply like Hollywood to go back to what it once did better than anyone, which is tell the American story and tell it correctly, respecting the audience.
MATTINGLY: Brent Bozell is the founder and president of the Parents Television Council. An organization now playing a leading role in one of the most politically charged dramas in Washington. The push, to clean up prime-time TV. It's a campaign that's been gaining momentum ever since halftime at last year's Super Bowl.
BOZELL: I think what it did was to show the nation's largest audience exactly what is going on in some circles in Hollywood, perverting the popular culture.
MATTINGLY: Eight hours a day, five days a week, PTC analysts pour over every minute of prime-time shows, and catalog incidents of the big three: sex, violence and bad language. And since they began 10 years ago, they claim to have documented a trend.
MELISSA CALDWELL, PTC RESEARCH DIRECTOR: Not only are we seeing quantitatively much more violence, sexual content and violent language but qualitative what are we seeing is much, much worse.
MATTINGLY: They also take note of advertisers and examine more subtle content they consider detrimental to the image of families. Take for example, this scene between a married woman and another married man. From the hit show "Desperate Housewives."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really need our friendship back.
CALDWELL: We would record it in our database as a marriage relationship but treatment of marriage relationship. There are certain topics like that that we will track. MATTINGLY: The findings are collected for research and folded into the PTC Web site. That's where they also post a rating system. In the last week of January, only three out of the top 20 shows were green lighted for family viewing. A committee also selects the worst clips of the week, and encourages members to complain to the FCC. The networks, and the advertisers.
JIM LEMON, PTC MEMBER: I think it's worst message we can send to kids is adults don't care about the messages they're exposed to.
MATTINGLY: Jim Lemons he was just a typical parent watching the Super Bowl with his family last year. He was so outraged at Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction that he joined the 40,000 new names on the PTC's e-mail alert list in 2004. Now a 100,000 strong, they say, it's a cyber army, capable of instantly firing off hundreds of complaints in electronic forms on the PTC Web site. This amounts to what some have labeled a complaint factory.
ADAM THERER, CATO INSTITUTE: Recent surveys have revealed that upwards 98 to 99 percent of the complaints filed with the FCC about certain types of shows on television or radio are filed by the Parent's Television's Council.
MATTINGLY: Parents Television Council's offices actually look more like a warehouse than a factory. We found stacks and stacks of video videotapes, 100,000 hours of recorded prime time programming in all. Each of them containing evidence the PTC now uses to drive a legislative agenda.
MATTINGLY (on camera): The council is aggressively lobbying Congress for passage of much bigger fines for broadcasters and for a law that would force the FCC to act more quickly on all those complaints its members are filing. And this week, the PTC labeled MTV a smut peddler. The first shock in a new fight over basic cable where the FCC has no jurisdiction over content it's part of an agenda critics call censorship.
THERER: They claim victory in things like getting Howard Stern driven off of the public airwaves. Or getting Fox television fined $1.2 million dollars for some of their latest indecency fights. So you can't claim that you're not in favor of censorship if you're boasting getting personalities driven off the airwaves as a success story.
BOZELL: They're saying that they have the right to say whatever they want on the public airwaves. But those who own the public airwaves -- if they exercised their free speech and speak out against it. Who's the censor here?
MATTINGLY (voice over): Observers say the hand of the PTC is among those at work in the added sensitivity surrounding this year's Super Bowl ad and the scrutiny at the halftime shows. And if it becomes something more than a football game, this is one watch dog ready to bite. David Mattingly, CNN, Washington.
ROMANS: Could Iraq be a key to fighting alcoholism? A new study finds that might one day help humans who humans who have alcohol problems.
And did you get a chance to watch the SAG Awards last night? No. Well, we have the winners and losers when we come back.
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ROMANS: As President Bush pushes his plan to overhaul Social Security for future generations, some are finding they don't have the means to retire now. That lack of financial security is sending seniors back to college in droves to learn new skills. Lindsey Aaron reports.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have several things we need to accomplish today.
LINDSEY AARON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): At 56, Lawanna Hatcher is hard to miss among her freshman classmates at the College of Southern Maryland but despite the nearly 40-year age difference, Hatcher's life and financial situation is as uncertain as the students who surround her.
LAWANNA HATCHER, STUDENT: I have to start from scratch and get something in a very short time. Because I don't have the privilege of having, you know, 30 years before I can retire.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning.
AARON: Like many student, Hatcher works on campus, lives at home with her parents, and has few marketable job skills. A recent divorce left the mother of three grown children with a broken home and a barren saving's account.
HATCHER: We were taught, you get out of high school, get married and have kids and you go from there. That's it. Happily ever after. Well, it doesn't work out that way.
AARON: Hatcher joins a growing number of older Americans returning to school, seeking new job skills and looking to squeeze out a few more years of income before retirement.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A lot of the statistics are showing that people who retire are then staying retired for a year. And then deciding, oh, no, either I can't afford this or I'm not happy because I'm healthy, I can work and they're look for new careers so they're coming back to us for training.
AARON: The number of Americans over 50 entering colleges and universities has steadily grown over the last decade. From more than 417,000 in 1993 to nearly 590,000 in 2001, according to the U.S. Department of Education.
ROBERTT BIXBY, EXEC. DIR, CONCORD COALITION: It's frankly a lesson to the younger boomers and the Gen Xer's that you do need to save during your working years and you can't just rely on Social Security to get you through.
AARON: Hatcher who studying to be a radiology nurse says returning to school was terrifying.
HATCHER: Walk in, sit down and all of the kids look at you and you go, oh, what are they looking at me for?
AARON: It was an adjustment for her classmates, too.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She has a lot that she knows of and it is kind of cool because you don't...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It really plants the idea that life-long learning is important.
HATCHER: Thanks.
AARON: Hatcher says the life lessons she's learned are invaluable.
HATCHER Just go for it. That's all you can do. Because there is no guarantee of security for tomorrow.
AARON: Lindsey Aaron for CNN, Washington.
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ROMANS: A judge in Chicago says a couple may sue for wrongful death over discarded frozen embryos ruling that an embryo is a human being. The couple had stored nine embryos at a Chicago Fertility Clinic in 2000 later the clinic inadvertently destroyed them. The judge sited a Illinois state law.
A new study on alcohol and genetics is revealing some interesting insights. According to the journal nature neuroscience, researchers have discovered a mutant gene that makes lab rats more sensitive to alcohol. It allows them to get drunk quicker, making them less likely to become alcohol dependent. Scientists are excited about the findings. Future studies on the gene could help identify which individuals may be predisposed to alcoholism.
Tom Otis is a UCLA neurobiologist and he is one of the scientists who authored the study. Thank you for joining us.
THOMAS OTIS, UCLA NEUROBIOLOGIST: Sure. It's my pleasure Christine.
ROMANS: What could your findings potentially do in the help of treatment of alcoholism in people?
OTIS: Well, we've identified a target for alcohol, which we think is important in the brand. And this target hopefully will focus our efforts so that we can understand some of the basic mechanisms of how alcohol depend ends occur.
ROMANS: Essentially in the rat you found a genetic mutation that makes the same amount of alcohol for one rat more effective on another. Essentially these rats were born with different tolerance levels for alcohol.
OTIS: Yes that's right. By more effective, you mean they get drunk faster, yes. The rats that we've studied with this variation get drunk. And specifically, they are made much more uncoordinated by the same dose of alcohol.
ROMANS: And that mutation actually prevents alcoholism?
OTIS: Well...
ROMANS: Or would suggest?
OTIS: That we don't know. We're hopeful that further study will be able to make use of this target and look at whether or not it predisposes people either to be more likely to become alcohol dependent or less.
ROMANS: Because indeed this is a study in rats not in people?
OTIS: That's right.
ROMANS: So how helpful can it be? What other studies do you need to do to find out -- for example in human, a beer for one person is definitely not the same for a beer for another person.
OTIS: Yes that's right. We think that other researchers will take advantage of our identification of this target. And look for variations in humans. So that might be the sort of quickest thing that people will do, researchers will do.
ROMANS: It's interesting because just sort of human experience I think shows that there are a lot of people agree that tolerance and alcoholism seems to be something in humans that is passed down or is genetic. What kind of work has been done in this area and how what you have done with rats fit into this idea that maybe alcoholism is something that is a medical condition that is something that is genetic?
OTIS: Right, well it's clear that there aren't any directly genetic components of alcoholism. What I mean by that is that, it's not like you for sure know that you have inherited the propensity for alcoholism. Rather, we think are there probably many genes. And I think that the gene that we've identified is, there's at least a clear connection to alcohol intoxication and the notion is that, for people who -- for whom it maybe more difficult to get drunk, that if they have that kind of a variation that that may predispose them to alcoholism. Of course this is far from proven. A lot of additional research will be required.
ROMANS: Dr. Thomas Otis, we thank you for bringing the research that you have brought to us very interesting stuff. Thanks.
OTIS: Thank you.
ROMANS: And now Carol Lin is here with a preview of what is going on. (INAUDIBLE)
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: That's right, 6:00 Eastern, we are going to have the latest on a Republican mayor who is actually for gay marriage in his state. So you'll find out more details about that. 10:00 tonight on our prime-time show, we have an exclusive report by Nic Robertson about insurgent confessions on videotape now. Very interesting how they detail their crimes. Human rights abuses, though, are being alleged in the process. So we've got more on that controversy at 10:00 tonight.
ROMANS: Turning the tables a bit, perhaps.
LIN: You bet and very gruesome in the details they give in the crimes they have committed.
ROMANS: Interesting. All right, Carol Lin 6:00 and 10:00, thanks Carol. SAG Awards went to Oscar hopefuls last night. Some probably expected, some maybe not. Our Sibila Vargas reports on the night's awards when we come back.
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ROMANS: It's party time in Rio De Janeiro, the cities world famous carnival celebration is in full swing. It all started Friday, wraps up on Wednesday. Nearly 800,000 tourists are expected to descend on Rio for the celebration. The stars glittered in Los Angeles last night, where Hollywood's elite turned out for the Screen Actors Guild Awards. CNN's Sibila Vargas was there.
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SIBILA VARGAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): It was a night for actors, by actors and about actors.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We'd like to use this award to ring the death now to reality television.
VARGAS: The "Desperate Housewives'" cast picked up actor statures from ensemble in a comedy series while Teri Hatcher was recognized for her role in the show.
TERI HATCHER, BEST ACTRESS, COMEDY: I came to Los Angeles as a dancing extra in the "Love Boat."
VARGAS: Tony Shalub and Geoffrey Rush were each honored with individual awards. "Law & Order's" Jerry Orbach received the make actor in a drama series. His wife accepted the award.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How bittersweet, but it's still sweet.
VARGAS: "Alias" star Jennifer Garner picked up a stature for her dramatic role.
JENNIFER GARNER: We're so lucky to have this job. We had a blast.
VARGAS: And Glenn Close referred to a letter she got from Katharine Hepburn when accepting her award for female actor in a television or mini series role.
GLENN CLOSE, ACTRESS: I'm glad I persuade you when you were a mere child should join this terrible profession.
VARGAS: Quadruple nominee Jamie Foxx blew his lines not only once, but twice.
JAMIE FOXX, ACTOR: Nominated for...
VARGAS: The third was a charm.
FOXX: Nominated for ensemble cast.
VARGAS: From the small screen to the big screen, it was a knockout night for two actors for "Million Dollar Baby."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The actor goes to Hilary Swank.
HILARY SWANK, ACTRESS: I am amazed, lucky, thankful, speechless and quite frankly quite stunned to be a working actor.
VARGAS: Hilary Swank was honored for female actor in a leading role while her co-star 67-year-old Morgan Freeman received a statue for an actor in a supporting role. The screen actors gild recognized James Garner for a lifetime of achievements. While Cate Blanchett's portrayal of Katharine Hepburn in "Aviator " earned her a supporting award.
CATE BLANCHETT, ACTRESS: I don't know where to begin, I am overwhelmed.
VARGAS: Not as overwhelmed as the actors from "Sideways" they received outstanding performance by a cast in a motion-picture. Jamie Foxx's portrayal of Ray Charles received yet another nod. He offered this sound advice.
FOXX: If you win or if you lose, keep walking in the same direction.
VARGAS: Sibilia Vargas, CNN, Los Angeles.
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ROMANS: And that's it for us. "NEXT@CNN" is straight ahead. And here is Daniel Siegberg with a preview.
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN ANCHOR: Ahead on "Next@CNN," behind the scenes at the Super Bowl. Ways to keep a lid on your kid's computer time and crocodiles that are too lazy to mate. ROMANS: And then at 6:00 Eastern hear from one couple at the center of the battle to make gay marriage legal in New York. Thank you for joining us. Back with headlines after a quick break.
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